AESOP 2024 ANNUAL CONGRESS | ROUNDTABLES

36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, France
“GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions”

 

Planning professionalism and re-building trust in a post-truth era

Organizers:

  • Katie McClymont,  UWE Bristol
  • Hannah Hickman, UWE Bristol

Speakers:

  • Mark Oranje,  University of Pretoria
  • Gabriela Debrunner,  ETH Zürich
  • David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich
  • John Sturzaker, University of Hertfordshire

This roundtable will look at trust in planning and trust in planners with a focus on professionalism and expert knowledge in a populist, polarised “post-truth”, era, where the sense of “public interest” remains vital but is in dispute.  In a broader international context of an ongoing crisis in trust in institutions and experts, trust in planning matters because planning is at the heart of increasingly contentious – and at times polarising - debates about tackling global challenges around climate, access to housing, health, and inequality. It will enable critical consideration of the commonalities and differences in the role of planning and the planner in different contexts. 

It will draw on divergent experiences in Switzerland, South Africa and the UK to outline differing relationships with residents, governments and knowledge; to seek commonalities and differences between practice and practitioners.

Critically, this discussion aims to explore how and if we can learn through international comparison to re-building trust, critical for ensuring planning’s positive role in tackling key global challenges.

Keywords:  Trust, professionalism, public interest, post-truth

Keynote Speakers

/Sabine%20Barles
Paris Sorbonne
Professeure des universités en Aménagement de l'espace
/Claire%20Colomb
Cambridge University
Professor of Land Economy
/Alex%20Deffner
University of Thessaly
Professor of Urban and Leisure Planning at the Department of Planning and Regional Development
/Emmanuel%20Grégoire
City of Paris
First deputy mayor, in charge of town planning, architecture and Greater Paris
/Michael%20Storper
UCLA + LSE
Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development in Urban Planning
/Christophe%20Demazière
Université de Lille
Professor at University of Lille, studies territorial development, small city development and comparative analysis of planning systems
/Hélène%20Mainet
Université de Clermont Auvergne
Professor of Geography and Urban Planning
/Sylvy%20Jaglin
Latts Université Gustave Eiffel
Professor of Urban Planning, specializes in Urban and African Studies
/Eric%20Verdeil
Sciences Po
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban and territorial strategies, CERI
/Patrick%20Le%20Galès
Sciences Po
CNRS research professor
/Tuna%20Tasan%20Kok
Amsterdam University
Professor of Urban Governance and Planning with a background in urban social geography and planning